Conformance and Interoperability
- Interoperability
- Ex: My English is (hopefully) good enough so that you can understand me
- Conformance
- Ex: My English breaks enough English grammar rules to make it hard for me to become a famous English orator in this lifetime
- conformance helps interoperability
if you and I follow the rules of English grammar, it will be easier to understand each other
- interoperability can only scale (in number of participants, with time) through conformance
